On Dienstag, 27. Februar 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote:
If the partition table has been trashed, then /dev/hda1, hda2 etc are useless. What I'm interested in is the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda".
ok, I gave it another try... I was not successful, but as you and some others seem to be interested I deliver the asked infos: here's the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda: ----- Disk /dev/hda: 8323 MB, 8323080192 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1011 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 66 529985+ 82 Linux swap Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(0, 0, 1) logical=(0, 1, 1) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(64, 254, 63) logical=(65, 250, 59) /dev/hda2 * 66 2432 19004767 83 Linux Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(66, 0, 1) logical=(65, 250, 60) Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(1022, 254, 63) logical=(2431, 246, 55) ----- as you see, the disk seems really messed up...
Does the bios shows the correct size?
I guess this laptop has really seen it's best times a while ago. Now I can't access the BIOS anymore, it asks me for a password to access it, but I never installed one and had no problems before. So I don't know...
And you don't mention using gpart.
Yes, sorry, I thought you were talking about gparted and just didn't type the "ed" :-) So here's the - disenchanting - output of gpart /dev/hda: ----- Begin scan... End scan. Checking partitions... Ok. Guessed primary partition table: Primary partition(1) type: 000(0x00)(unused) size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0) chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r Primary partition(2) type: 000(0x00)(unused) size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0) chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r Primary partition(3) type: 000(0x00)(unused) size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0) chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r Primary partition(4) type: 000(0x00)(unused) size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0) chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r ---- I was also looking at the website of testdisk, but there it says that the size of the disk must be reported correctly to make the tool work successful - and that exactly seems to be the problem.
I was just hoping there was a tool which I can download, burn on a CD, boot with it and save the data on a floppy without the need of knowing/thinking so much :-)
A floppy is way too small! There is dd, of course, it does that, in raw.
Yes, for a whole disk copy of course. As there is no other disk in the laptop (and I don't want to put that disk in my perfectly working desktop PC) I have no possibility to make such a copy. It would have been great if I could just save some files, but well...
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